Episode 32 – Charging Trucks at the Speed of Logistics: Inside the Megawatt Transition

Summary Solar, battery storage and EV charging used to be planned as three separate projects, each with its own business case. That is changing quickly. Rising energy prices and slow grid connections are pushing charge point operators across Europe to design PV, BESS and chargers together as one integrated system. For CPOs planning high-power sites, the question is shifting from how many chargers to buy towards how to design the whole site around the grid, the energy and the vehicles to come....

Summary Most conversations about EV charging infrastructure focus on chargers, power and grid connections. Far fewer look at backend architecture, even though it decides whether a site keeps charging when something goes wrong. In the traditional setup, each charger talks to a single charge point management system (CPMS) over OCPP. If that one connection drops, transactions, remote commands and monitoring can stop with it. For critical sites like electric bus depots, and for CPOs migrating net...

Summary For decades, the energy sector and the mobility sector evolved on separate tracks. Electrification has now merged them, and EV charging sites sit exactly where they meet. For charge point operators, that creates a new kind of asset: a vehicle that has a trip to make, but also a flexible load that can respond to imbalance prices, balancing markets and grid constraints. The question is no longer whether EV flexibility has value, but how CPOs can capture it reliably without compromising ...

Public charging, not battery technology, is quietly becoming the biggest obstacle to electrifying Europe's trucking fleet. A truck can't simply pull up to a standard DC charger built for cars; it needs dedicated infrastructure delivering 600 kilowatts, 800 kilowatts, or even a full megawatt, sized to refill a battery inside the driver's mandatory 45-minute regulatory break. Building that infrastructure at scale, along the right corridors, with the right grid capacity, is a very different chal...

Summary EV charging infrastructure has largely solved the problem it set out to solve — the chargers work, the networks exist, drivers can find a plug. But at ICNC26 in Berlin this September, the industry's largest annual gathering built its entire theme around what comes next: "Collaboration at Scale: Establishing the Open Smart Charging Ecosystem." The premise is that interoperability can no longer stop at plugs and protocols; it has to extend into smart charging, grid data, and the deeper ...